Rail-joint.



K. JASIECKI & K. GLOWACKI.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 1912 1,053,299. Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

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KAZIMIER JASIECKI AND KASIMIERZ GLOWACKI, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL-VANIA, ASSIGNGRS OF ONE-THIRD TO HERMAN F. VOSS AND HUBERT MEIER, OF

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Application filed July 12,-

To all whom, it may concern:

.Be it known that we, KAZIMIER JASIECKI and KASIMIERZ GLOWACKI, citizenof the United States and subject of. the Czar of Russia, respectively,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specifi cation.

Our invent-ion relates to improvements in rail joints, the object of theinvention being to provide a rail joint in which the meeting ends ofrails are securely locked against possibility of longitudinal or lateralmovement, and in which ordinary rolled rails are employed having barswhich are secured thereto and constructed to interlock.

'A further object is to provide an 1mproved joint of this character inwhich fish plates are dispensed with and in which the rails may bequickly coupled. and securely held together.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangements ofparts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View of ourimproved rail' joint. Figs. 2, and 3, are perspective views of the endsof rails with our improvements thereon. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofone of the bars 14. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the bars 6.Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the end of rail 1, and Fig. 7 is a viewin section on the line-7 7 of Fig. 1.

1 and 2 represent the meet-ingrails which are of the ordinary standardrolled type. Rail 1 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, has its base flanges 4cut away at both sides of its central web 5 and against this central web5 at opposite sides thereof, bars 6 are secured by rivets 7. These bars6 snugly fit under the head ofthe rail, and are provided with flanges 8.which aline with the base flanges 4 constituting continuations ofsaidbase flanges. The bars 6 project beyond the end of rail 1. They arespaced apart and positioned parallel to each other, and the portions ofsaid bars which extend beyond the end of rail 1 are of less height ordepth than the portion of said bars which are se- Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18,1913.

1912. Serial No. 708,971.

cured to the web, and these outwardly extending portions of the bars weshall term extensions 9 for purposes of clearness in description. Theextensions 9 at their free ends are provided with angular lugs 10, andon their upper faces, blocks 11 are secured. These blocks 11 may besecured in various ways. We have illustrated pins or rivets 12 for thepurpose which extend through the blocks and the extensions. These blocks11 are located at the inner faces of the extensions, and they areadaptedto enter recesses 13 which are formed in bars 14 secured by Y rivets 15to the web 16 of rail 2. This rail 2 has its base flanges 17 cut awayfrom its end a distance which is approximately the same as the length ofbars 13, so that this web portion 16 may be positioned between theextensions 9 and permit the blocks 11 to enter the recesses 13 in bars14. The base flanges 17 ofrail 2 at their end have recesses 18 thereinto receive the angular lugs lO on extensions 9. The rails 1 and 2 areformed in the ordinary way by rolling, and then their base flanges arecut away as lilustrated'in Figs. 4 and 6. The bars 6 with their blocks'11 secured thereto are secured by the rivets 7 to rails 1, and the bars1 1 are secured to the rail 2. In assembling the joint, it is necessaryto elevate rail 2 so that its recessed bars 14 may be. positioned abovethe blocks 11. The downward movement of rail'2 will position the blocks11 in thefieesses 13, and will position thedugs 10 in recesses 18. Whenthe several base flanges are secured to the ties by the ordinary spikes,the joined rails will be efiectively held and prevented from anypossibility of independent movement.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangementof parts vention, and hence we do not limit ourselves to the precisedetails set forth, but consider ourselves at liberty to make suchchanges and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of,the appended claims.'

Having thusdescribed our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with two railroad rails having their base flanges cutaway adjacent their ends, bars secured to the web of one rail and havingextensions thereon project-- described without departing from our iningbeyond the end of the rail, said bars having base flanges alining withthe base flanges of the rail, and bars secured to the web of the otherrail and constructed to interlock with said first-mentioned bars,substantially as described.

2. In combination with two railroad rails having their base flanges cutaway adjacent their ends, bars secured to the web of onerail and havingextensions thereon projecting beyond the end of the rail, said barshaving base flanges alining with the base flanges of the rail, blockssecured on the upper faces of the extensions at their inner edges, andbars secured to the web of the other rail and having recesses therein towith said first-mentioned bars, lugs on the ends of said extensions, andthe base flanges in the last-mentioned rail having recesses to receivesaid lugs, substantially as described. 30

at. In combination with two railroad rails having their base flanges cutaway adjacent their ends, bars secured to the web of one rail and havingextensions thereon projecting beyond the end of the rail, said bars hav-35 ing base flanges alining with the base flanges of the rail, blockssecured on the upper faces of the extensions at their inner edges, barssecured to the webs of the other rail and having recesses therein toreceive said blocks, 10

lugs on the ends of said extensions, and the base flanges on thelast-mentioned rail hav ing recesses to receive said lugs, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our 4 names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

KAZIMIER JASIECKT. KASIMIERZ GLOWVACKI. Witnesses:

R. H. KRINKEL, CHAS. E. Porrs.

